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They're weird fish. I caught one on a small grub bouncing it through a rocky riffle for smallies one time, and then a couple on little niblets of nightcrawler on the bottom fishing for redhorse. I've never actually gotten one on purpose lol.
i'll have to fillet one now. I get um sometimes. You can see them swim by under my open ice fishing holes. minnows seem to be the desired bait.
Same, see them up in shallow flats along the river sometimes. I've tossed plugs, spinnerbaits, and spoons at them and never gotten one to hit any of it.
Spooks drive them crazy but the only way you'll ever really catch them is to swap out the rear treble for a piece of synthetic rope.
Holy crap that's a wild time man. And you caught it!! Did you try to grab it the first time initially when it came up beak first in the hole?